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16-letter words containing d, a, l, b, e

  • molybdate orange — a pigment consisting of a solid solution of sulfate, molybdate, and chromate compounds of lead.
  • mönchen-gladbach — city in WC Germany, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia: pop. 266,000
  • munchen-gladbach — former name of Mönchengladbach.
  • nibble mode dram — (storage)   A standard DRAM where four successive bits can be clocked out of the single data line by successive pulses on the CAS\ line while RAS\ is active. A column address is only required for the first bit. This mode is now unfashionable but can be found on some older 64 kilobit and 256 kilobit chips.
  • non-debilitating — to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.
  • non-extraditable — capable of being extradited; subject to extradition: an extraditable person.
  • nonbiodegradable — Not biodegradable.
  • nondurable goods — goods that remain usable for, or must be replaced within, a relatively short period of time, as food, apparel, or fabrics
  • north battleford — a city in W central Saskatchewan, in central Canada.
  • on the breadline — impoverished; living at subsistence level
  • ordinary jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
  • organized labour — labour carried out by workers in trade unions, or the workers themselves
  • outboard profile — an exterior side elevation of a vessel, showing all deck structures, rigging, fittings, etc.
  • pass-band filter — band-pass filter
  • pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
  • publication date — the date on which a book or periodical is or is planned to be published.
  • razor-billed auk — a black and white auk, Alca torda, of the American and European coasts of the northern North Atlantic, having a compressed black bill encircled by a white band.
  • reasonable doubt — law: grounds for believing sb is innocent
  • redistributional — a distribution performed again or anew.
  • rhythm and blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
  • rhythm-and-blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
  • ribonucleic acid — RNA.
  • rough and tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
  • rough-and-tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
  • round lake beach — a town in NE Illinois.
  • run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
  • sandlot baseball — a form of baseball played by children on an area of vacant ground
  • sebaceous glands — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
  • self-abandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
  • shoot-to-disable — of or relating to shooting by soldiers or police that is intended to disable rather than kill
  • single-barrelled — (of a firearm) having a single barrel
  • sodium bisulfate — a colorless crystalline compound, NaHSO 4 , soluble in water: used in dyeing, in the manufacture of cement, paper, soap, and an acid-type cleaner.
  • spectacled cobra — Indian cobra.
  • stalked puffball — a puffball-like mushroom of the genus Tulestoma, maturing in early winter.
  • strawberry blond — reddish blond.
  • sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
  • tell one's beads — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
  • teutoburger wald — a chain of wooded hills in Germany, in Westphalia: Romans defeated by German tribes a.d.
  • thalidomide baby — a baby that has physical abnormalities due to the drug thalidomide being taken by the mother while the baby was still a developing fetus
  • the barren lands — a region of tundra in N Canada, extending westwards from Hudson Bay: sparsely inhabited, chiefly by Inuit
  • the war-disabled — those people who have been disabled by war
  • turn a blind eye — pretend not to see sth
  • turntable ladder — a power-operated extending ladder mounted on a fire engine
  • uncontradictable — to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
  • under bare poles — (of a sailing vessel) with no sails set
  • undifferentiable — capable of being differentiated.
  • unpredictability — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
  • ununderstandable — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
  • valet de chambre — valet (def 1).
  • vegetable garden — allotment
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